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Sending email

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.. module:: scrapy.mail
   :synopsis: Email sending facility

Although Python makes sending e-mail relatively easy via the smtplib library, Scrapy provides its own facility for sending emails which is very easy to use and it's implemented using Twisted non-blocking IO, to avoid interfering with the non-blocking IO of the crawler.

It's also very easy to configure by just configuring a few settings.

It also has built-in support for sending attachments.

Quick example

Here's a quick example of how to send an email (without attachments):

from scrapy.mail import MailSender

mailer = MailSender()
mailer.send(to=["someone@example.com"], subject="Some subject", body="Some body", cc=["another@example.com"])

MailSender class reference

MailSender is the preferred class to use for sending emails from Scrapy, as it uses Twisted non-blocking IO, like the rest of the framework.

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.. method:: send(to, subject, body, cc=None, attachs=())

    Send email to the given recipients

    :param to: the email recipients
    :type to: list

    :param subject: the subject of the email
    :type subject: str

    :param cc: the emails to CC
    :type cc: list

    :param body: the email body
    :type body: str

    :param attachs: an iterable of tuples ``(attach_name, mimetype,
      file_object)`` where  ``attach_name`` is a string with the name will
      appear on the emails attachment, ``mimetype`` is the mimetype of the
      attachment and ``file_object`` is a readable file object with the
      contents of the attachment
    :type attachs: iterable

MailSender settings

These settings define the default constructor values of the :class:`MailSender` class, and can be used to configure email notifications in your project without writing any code (for those extensions that use the :class:`MailSender` class):

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